Winfrey v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 761 · 1978
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Eldridge v. Block (1987), United States v. Guthrie (1991)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Jenkins v. McKeithen · Patterson v. United States · Thomas v. Pate
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the required notice cannot be dispensed with merely because a motion to dismiss is treated as a motion for summary judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garaux v. Pulley“once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eldridge v. Block“the type of meaningful opposition contemplated by Rule 56”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jensen v. Klecker
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.